[Pan-users] Re: setting PAN_HOME *does* work; moving doesnt

[Michel Doodeman]

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> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:50:52 +0000
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> 2008/11/26 Michel Doodeman <address@hidden>:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > As can be read in the subject: I have a question about the Pan settings 
> > variable because it fails me. I just cannot get it to work. If I set it to 
> > whatever directory, e.g. with 'export PAN_HOME=/home/ice/.pan300' (and the 
> > directory is present indeed), Pan still wants me to add servers from 
> > scratch after launching. I echoed the environment to verify its value.
> >
> > So in other words, it does not read the alternative path in which settings 
> > can be found. Am I overlooking something?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> how do you start pan? you should start it from the shell in which you
> set the export or set the pan home as env variable.
> else it will apply only to the shell session in which you lauched the export.

Ah yes. That does the trick indeed. What I did was exporting the path, then 
starting it from menu. The original ~/.pan2 was differently renamed. So 
logically Pan prompted me to add servers. This brings me to another point:

If Pan has been configured and its settings are stored to ~/.pan2 and you then 
export PAN_HOME to e.g. ~/.pan300 and start pan, all groups disappeared. Both 
'subscribed' and 'other'. If I refresh the grouplist I can see the newsgroups I 
once was subscribed to, displayed again. In bold, under the 'other groups'.
When I exit, again all groups disappeared from the list. I assume this shouldnt 
happen.